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+From: Daniel Lipshitz <daniel@gap600.com>
+Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 08:59:01 +0200
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+HI Antoine
+
+Thank you for all the references - I agree with Sergej
+statement "opportunity makes the thief"
+
+The 1.5M trxs are all BTC which our clients query, I dont have specifics
+for those trxs i.e. reasons for not being confirmed. However we target to
+achieve +90% confirmation of trxs for our clients. Fee rates the
+transactions generally follow standard fee/rate policy similar to all
+industry recommendations, we recommend higher priority fee rate but approve
+trxs well below that level. I would say we havent seen a trx with medium
+fee rate be double spend - this is excluding race attacks or as you
+mentioned ancestral unconfirmed attacks.
+
+Opt in RBF is used in many ways to try to do double spends - i.e with
+ancestral attacks inputs which are not confirmed, and also publishing the
+RBF first and then the straight trxs later. In general double spends excl
+Optin RBF does not occur alot at all - but the presence of a potential risk
+causes everyone to wait back for confirmations.
+
+Looking at a sample of latest 4.3M trxs, I can see crica 11k trxs which
+seem to be double spent vast majority of these will be RBF, also on trx
+that are high risk and we dont confirm the attacker has no incentive to
+follow through with the second trxs.
+
+I see quite a bit of reference to the benefit to miners for RBF - I would
+think this cash flow benefit is not significant but I would suggest getting
+input from a miner themselves.
+
+Best
+Daniel
+
+________________________________
+
+Daniel Lipshitz
+GAP600| www.gap600.com
+Phone: +44 113 4900 117
+Skype: daniellipshitz123
+Twitter: @daniellipshitz
+
+
+On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 3:52 AM Antoine Riard <antoine.riard@gmail.com>
+wrote:
+
+> Hi Daniel,
+>
+> From my understanding of GAP600, you're operating a zero-conf risk
+> analysis business, which is integrated and leveraged by payment
+> processors/liquidity providers and merchants. A deployment of fullrbf by
+> enough full-node operators and a subset of the mining hashrate would lowe=
+r
+> the cost of double-spend attack by lamda users, therefore increasing the
+> risk exposure of your users. This increased risk exposure could lead you =
+to
+> alter the acceptance of incoming zero-conf transactions, AFAICT in a
+> similar reasoning as exposed by Bitrefill earlier this year [0].
+>
+> About the statistics you're asking for considerations, few further
+> questions, on those 1.5M transactions per month, a) how many are
+> Bitcoin-only (as I understand to be multi-cryptocurrencies), b) how many
+> are excluded from zeroconf due to factors like RBF, long-chain of
+> unconfirmed ancestors or too high-value and c) what has been the average
+> feerate (assuming a standard size of 200 bytes) ?
+>
+> My personal position on fullrbf is still the same as expressed in #26525
+> [1]. As a community, I think we still don't have conceptual consensus on
+> deploying full-rbf, neither to remove it. In the direction of removing th=
+e
+> current option from Bitcoin Core, I think the prerequisite to address are
+> the qualification of enough economic flows at risk and the presence of a
+> sizable loss in miners income. Beyond that, I think there is still the op=
+en
+> question if we (we, as the Bitcoin protocol development community, with a=
+ll
+> its stakeholders) should restrain user choice in policy settings in the
+> name of preserving mining income and established use-case stability.
+>
+> To recall, the original technical motivation of this option, and the wide=
+r
+> smoother deployment was to address a DoS vector affecting another class o=
+f
+> use-case: multi-party transactions like coinjoin and contracting protocol=
+s
+> like Lightning [2] [3]. All of them expect to generate economic flows and
+> corresponding mining income. Since then, alternative paths to solve this
+> DoS vector have been devised, all with their own trade-offs and conceptua=
+l
+> issues [4] [5].
+>
+> Best,
+> Antoine
+>
+> [0]
+> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/0210=
+70.html
+> [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26525#issuecomment-1319499006
+> [2]
+> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-June/020557.=
+html
+> [3]
+> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-May/003033=
+.html
+> [4]
+> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/0211=
+35.html
+> [5]
+> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-November/021=
+144.html
+>
+> Le jeu. 1 d=C3=A9c. 2022 =C3=A0 07:32, Daniel Lipshitz via bitcoin-dev <
+> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> a =C3=A9crit :
+>
+>> HI All
+>>
+>> I am the CEO of GAP600. We guarantee zero confirmed Bitcoin and other
+>> crypto transactions, BTC is a primary part of our business. Our guarant=
+ee
+>> enables our customers to recognise zero-conf deposits. We reimburse our
+>> clients value of the trx should we get it wrong and a transaction we
+>> confirmed gets double spent.
+>>
+>> Should full RBF become default enabled and significantly adopted this
+>> would have a major impact on the capacity to accept zerof confs on mainn=
+et.
+>> With the end result being this use case will be forced to move to a
+>> different chain, with lightning being just another option.
+>>
+>> I wanted to share some statistics about how significant this use case is=
+.
+>> GAP600 clients are primarily payment processors and non custodial
+>> liquidity providers; you can see some of our clients on our site
+>> www.gap600.com. There are also merchants who have developed their own
+>> tools so GAP600 statistics are only a subset of the full use case.
+>>
+>> I do not know of any wallet, exchange or custodian who accepts zero conf
+>> without having some sort of solution in place. The market seems to be fu=
+lly
+>> aware of the risks of zero-conf. The opt-RBF seems to be a solution whic=
+h
+>> gives a clear free choice for actors.
+>>
+>> Statistics for consideration as a sample of the zero conf use case -
+>>
+>>
+>> 1. As of end of Nov 2022 - GAP600 has processed i.e responded to
+>> circa 15M transactions
+>> 2. These transactions have a cumulative value of 2.3B USD value.
+>> 3. We currently are seeing circa 1.5M transactions queired per month.
+>>
+>>
+>> It's a sizable amount of trxs on mainet and we are by no means the full
+>> market of platforms accepting zero-conf. I realise there are other
+>> considerations which BTC has, I would urge you to take into account the
+>> major risk being placed on this significant market share when deciding t=
+o
+>> make this feature default enabled and encouraging full adoption.
+>>
+>> Thank you for your consideration
+>> Daniel
+>> ________________________________
+>>
+>> Daniel Lipshitz
+>> GAP600| www.gap600.com
+>>
+>> _______________________________________________
+>> bitcoin-dev mailing list
+>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
+>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
+>>
+>
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+
+<div dir=3D"ltr">HI=C2=A0Antoine<div><br></div><div>Thank you for all the r=
+eferences - I agree with Sergej statement=C2=A0&quot;opportunity makes the =
+thief&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>The 1.5M trxs are all BTC which our cl=
+ients query, I dont have specifics for those trxs i.e. reasons for not bein=
+g confirmed. However we target to achieve +90% confirmation of trxs for our=
+ clients. Fee rates the transactions generally follow standard fee/rate pol=
+icy similar to all industry recommendations, we recommend higher priority f=
+ee rate but approve trxs well below that level. I would say we havent=C2=A0=
+seen a trx with medium fee rate be double spend - this is excluding=C2=A0ra=
+ce attacks or as you mentioned ancestral=C2=A0unconfirmed attacks.</div><di=
+v><br></div><div>Opt in RBF is used in many ways to try to do double spends=
+ - i.e with ancestral=C2=A0attacks inputs which are not confirmed, and also=
+ publishing the RBF first and then the straight trxs later. In general doub=
+le spends excl Optin=C2=A0RBF does not occur alot at all - but the presence=
+ of a potential risk causes=C2=A0everyone to wait back for confirmations.</=
+div><div><br></div><div>Looking at a sample of latest 4.3M trxs, I can see =
+crica 11k trxs which seem to be double spent vast majority of these will be=
+ RBF, also on trx that are high risk and we dont confirm the attacker has n=
+o incentive to follow through with the second trxs.</div><div><br></div><di=
+v>I see quite a bit of reference to the benefit to miners for RBF - I would=
+ think this cash flow benefit is not significant=C2=A0but I would suggest g=
+etting input from a miner themselves.</div><div><span style=3D"font-size:12=
+.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style=3D"font-size:12.8px">Best</span></d=
+iv><div><span style=3D"font-size:12.8px">Daniel</span></div><br class=3D"gm=
+ail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signatu=
+re" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"lt=
+r"><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px">________________________________</div><d=
+iv style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><fo=
+nt face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">Daniel Lipshitz</font></div><div style=3D"fo=
+nt-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">GAP600|=
+=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.gap600.com/" target=3D"_blank">www.gap600.com</=
+a></font></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face=
+=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">Phone:=C2=A0</font><span style=3D"font-family:tahom=
+a,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">+44 113 4900 117</span></div><div style=3D"f=
+ont-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">Skype: =
+daniellipshitz123</font></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,=
+0)"><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">Twitter: @daniellipshitz</font></div>=
+</div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div=
+ dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 3:52 AM Antoine Ri=
+ard &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:antoine.riard@gmail.com">antoine.riard@gmail.com<=
+/a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0=
+px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><=
+div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Daniel,<br><br>From my understanding of GAP600, you&#39;=
+re operating a zero-conf risk analysis business, which is integrated and le=
+veraged by payment processors/liquidity providers and merchants. A deployme=
+nt of fullrbf by enough full-node operators and a subset of the mining hash=
+rate would lower the cost of double-spend attack by lamda users, therefore =
+increasing the risk exposure of your users. This increased risk exposure co=
+uld lead you to alter the acceptance of incoming zero-conf transactions, AF=
+AICT in a similar reasoning as exposed by Bitrefill earlier this year [0].<=
+br><br>About the statistics you&#39;re asking for considerations, few furth=
+er questions, on those 1.5M transactions per month, a) how many are Bitcoin=
+-only (as I understand to be multi-cryptocurrencies), b) how many are exclu=
+ded from zeroconf due to factors like RBF, long-chain of unconfirmed ancest=
+ors or too high-value and c) what has been the average feerate (assuming a =
+standard size of 200 bytes) ?<br><br>My personal position on fullrbf is sti=
+ll the same as expressed in #26525 [1]. As a community, I think we still do=
+n&#39;t have conceptual consensus on deploying full-rbf, neither to remove =
+it. In the direction of removing the current option from Bitcoin Core, I th=
+ink the prerequisite to address are the qualification of enough economic fl=
+ows at risk and the presence of a sizable loss in miners income. Beyond tha=
+t, I think there is still the open question if we (we, as the Bitcoin proto=
+col development community, with all its stakeholders) should restrain user =
+choice in policy settings in the name of preserving mining income and estab=
+lished use-case stability.<br><br>To recall, the original technical motivat=
+ion of this option, and the wider smoother deployment was to address a DoS =
+vector affecting another class of use-case: multi-party transactions like c=
+oinjoin and contracting protocols like Lightning [2] [3]. All of them expec=
+t to generate economic flows and corresponding mining income. Since then, a=
+lternative paths to solve this DoS vector have been devised, all with their=
+ own trade-offs and conceptual issues [4] [5].<br><br>Best,<br>Antoine<br><=
+br>[0] <a href=3D"https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2=
+022-October/021070.html" target=3D"_blank">https://lists.linuxfoundation.or=
+g/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/021070.html</a><br>[1] <a href=3D"http=
+s://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26525#issuecomment-1319499006" target=
+=3D"_blank">https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26525#issuecomment-1319=
+499006</a><br>[2] <a href=3D"https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bi=
+tcoin-dev/2022-June/020557.html" target=3D"_blank">https://lists.linuxfound=
+ation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-June/020557.html</a><br>[3] <a href=3D=
+"https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-May/003033.=
+html" target=3D"_blank">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightni=
+ng-dev/2021-May/003033.html</a><br>[4] <a href=3D"https://lists.linuxfounda=
+tion.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/021135.html" target=3D"_blank">=
+https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/021135=
+.html</a><br>[5] <a href=3D"https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bit=
+coin-dev/2022-November/021144.html" target=3D"_blank">https://lists.linuxfo=
+undation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-November/021144.html</a><br></div><=
+br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">Le=C2=
+=A0jeu. 1 d=C3=A9c. 2022 =C3=A0=C2=A007:32, Daniel Lipshitz via bitcoin-dev=
+ &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target=3D"_bl=
+ank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>&gt; a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:<br><=
+/div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;bo=
+rder-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">HI =
+All<div><br></div><div>I am the CEO of GAP600. We guarantee zero confirmed =
+Bitcoin and other crypto=C2=A0 transactions, BTC is a primary part of our b=
+usiness. Our guarantee enables our customers to recognise zero-conf deposit=
+s. We reimburse our clients value of the trx should we get it wrong and a t=
+ransaction we confirmed gets double spent.</div><div><br></div><div>Should =
+full RBF become default enabled and significantly adopted this would have a=
+ major impact on the capacity to accept zerof confs on mainnet. With the en=
+d result being this use case will be forced to move to a different chain, w=
+ith lightning being just another=C2=A0option.</div><div><br></div><div>I wa=
+nted to share some statistics about how significant this use case is.=C2=A0=
+</div><div>GAP600 clients are primarily payment processors and non custodia=
+l liquidity=C2=A0providers; you can see some of our clients on our site <a =
+href=3D"http://www.gap600.com" target=3D"_blank">www.gap600.com</a>. There =
+are also merchants who have developed their own tools so GAP600 statistics =
+are only a subset of the full use case.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>I do=
+ not know of any wallet, exchange or custodian who accepts zero conf withou=
+t having some sort of solution=C2=A0in place. The market seems to be fully =
+aware of the risks of zero-conf. The opt-RBF seems to be a solution which g=
+ives a clear free choice for actors.</div><div><br></div><div>Statistics fo=
+r consideration as a sample of the zero conf use case -=C2=A0</div><div><br=
+></div><div><ol><li>As of end of Nov 2022 - GAP600 has processed i.e respon=
+ded to circa 15M transactions</li><li>These transactions have a cumulative =
+value of 2.3B USD value.=C2=A0</li><li>We currently are seeing circa 1.5M t=
+ransactions queired per month.=C2=A0</li></ol></div><div><br></div><div>It&=
+#39;s a sizable amount of trxs on mainet and we are by no means the full ma=
+rket of platforms accepting zero-conf.=C2=A0=C2=A0I realise there are other=
+ considerations which BTC has,=C2=A0 I would urge you to take into account =
+the major risk being placed on this significant market share when deciding =
+to make this feature default enabled and encouraging=C2=A0full adoption.</d=
+iv><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your consideration</div><div>Daniel</d=
+iv><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"fo=
+nt-size:12.8px">________________________________</div><div style=3D"font-si=
+ze:12.8px"><br></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><font face=3D"tahoma, =
+sans-serif">Daniel Lipshitz</font></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px;colo=
+r:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">GAP600|=C2=A0<a href=3D"htt=
+p://www.gap600.com/" target=3D"_blank">www.gap600.com</a></font></div><div =
+style=3D"font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div></div></div></d=
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